Brooksby | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Brooksby
- France
Painter
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When I paint, my canvas becomes a window that opens onto another dimension.
Brooksby showed an early aptitude for drawing. To keep up with her father's business travels, her family traveled constantly across the United States. This itinerant childhood gave the American artist a real appetite for wandering. By the age of eight, she was already studying model drawing at the University of California, Los Angeles. Two years later, she was apprenticed to a Japanese ceramist in West Virginia, and later became interested in photography. At the Beaux-Arts, she discovered a passion for sculpture and graduated in 1987, just before moving to Florence, Italy, where she settled for over twenty years.
Her love affair with painting began in the Tuscan countryside, during scooter rides. She would ride around with her easel and canvases hanging on her luggage rack. In 2006, her wandering spirit wakes up. She visited Paris for a weekend and decided to settle there. The French capital inspired her first urban scenes, a major axis of her work. Brooksby considers herself a colorist and devotes part of her paintings to the "blue hour", that in-between time of day when it is neither day nor night. She claims to belong to the American "Contemporary Realism" movement. Very much anchored in the reality of the moment, her works are intended as testimonies of an era. She currently lives and works on the French Riviera. The return to the Mediterranean inspires her to paint again. She paints on the spot the alleys of the villages,
- 2018Exhibition at the CocoonBrussels, Belgium
- 2016Participation in Luxembourg Art FairLuxembourg, Luxembourg
- 2010James Watson buys her a paintingCold Spring Harbor in New York, United States of America (the)
- 2001Interviewed on NBC's The Today ShowFlorence, Italy
- 1965BirthNew York, United States of America (the)
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(120 Artworks)
120 Artworks
Brooksby
Corner Balcony
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Brooksby
Balcony Geraniums
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Brooksby
Le chateau
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Aux Tuilleries
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Ruelle Bormes les Mimosas
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Brooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Flowery Window
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
les pécheurs
120 x 120 cmSGD 9,800Brooksby
Vielle Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Paris Chiminies
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Seine Cruise
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Chez Flora
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Brasserie
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Ferrari in Toscana
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
La Carte des Vins
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Rue Monge
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Huitres Servis
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Un Clin d'œil sur Sacre Cœur
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Flowery balcony: Chez Sylvie
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Tabac Monge
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Fleurs Rouges sur le Balcon Parisien
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Urban Garden : Parisian Façade
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Glycine sur la veille porte en Provence
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Parisian Balcony - Chez Moi
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Windowbox Geraniums
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
La Nuit à la Brasserie l'Européen
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Le Faune au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Deux Gars et Une Reine.
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Parisian Cafe Dream
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Bougainvillier
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Reflections and Souvenirs
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100- Sold
Brooksby
La Tour Eiffel et les Quais
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100 Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Parisian Window
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Cafe le Bullier
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Brooksby
Fenêtre Ouverte - open window
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Le Bistrot de l'Amour
19 x 19 cmSGD 390- Sold
Brooksby
Au café.
19 x 19 cmSGD 390 Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Looking Up
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Brooksby
Fiat 500
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Haussmann Facade
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Chez Maman
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Brooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Brooksby
Le Sacré Coeur
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
le pécheur, Marseille
120 x 120 cmSGD 9,800Brooksby
Parisian yorkie
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Coin Fleurit
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Parisien Flowers
19 x 19 cmSGD 390